Pyorrhea remedy



Patented Aug 28, 1923.

ISABEL, CLIFTON, or BARBERVILLE, FLORIDA.

ICE.

PYORRHEA REMEDY.

No Drawing.

- used and compounded in the manner described.

I take: myrtle root, 2 pounds; honey, 1 ounce or 330 grains; borax, 61 grains; lump alum, 6 drains or 15 grains; alcohol, 1 gill.

The myrtle root (Myriad pmm'la) I is first crushed and then put into one (1) gallon of Water andboiled until reduced to one 1) quart orone-fourth of its original volume. This liquid is then strained and to it is added and mixed there-with the abovequa-n-tities of the other ingredients except the alcohol. The whole is then again boiled for fifteen (15) minutes, then filtered and r to this is added the alcohol. The Whole is thoroughly nixed by shaking or agitation and should make one (1) quart of the' medicine.

Application filed August 20, 1921. Serial No. 493,944.

The preparation is used as a mouth Wash in the usual manner of using mouth washes, either with a tooth brushor merely as a liquidwith which to rinse the mouth and gums. I v

Having thus fully describedmy said invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A pyorrhea remedy containing myrtle root, honey, boraX, alum, and alcohol, substantially in the proportions specified.

2. A pyorrhea remedy containing an ex tract of myrtle root combined with honey, borax, alum, and alcohol in substantially the proportions specified.

3. The method of preparing pyorrhea remedy which consists in boilingtwo pounds of myrtle root in one gallon of Water until the whole is reduced tosubstantially ones fourth its original quantity, then mixing therewith honey, boraX, alum, and alcohol in substantially the proportions specified.

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set myrhand and seal at Barberville, Florida this 8th day of August, A. D. nineteen hundred andv twenty-one.

. ISABEL CLIFTON. 1. s]

Witnesses:

J. S. ROGERS, J. E. ALEXANDER. 

